Net forest greenhouse gas flux per pixel, combining CO2e emissions from forest loss and disturbance with removals from forest growth. Negative values indicate a net carbon sink (removals exceed emissions), positive values indicate a net carbon source (emissions exceed removals). Values are expressed in megagrams of CO2 equivalent per hectare per year.
This layer maps the net forest greenhouse gas flux, i.e. the balance between carbon emissions from forest loss and disturbance and carbon removals from forest growth, over the 2001-2020 monitoring period.
The map is produced in Google Earth Engine from the projects/sat-io/open-datasets/forest_carbon_fluxes/net_flux image (band b1), the WRI / Global Forest Watch forest carbon net flux model re-hosted on the Awesome GEE Community Catalog. The single band is clipped to the area of interest and downloaded at a native scale of 30 m in Web Mercator.
Each pixel value represents the net flux in megagrams of CO2 equivalent per hectare per year (Mg CO2e/ha/yr). The rendering uses a diverging blue-to-red ramp spanning -50 to +50 Mg CO2e/ha/yr: blue tones mark net sequestration (a carbon sink, negative flux), the neutral tone marks near-zero balance, and red tones mark net emissions (a carbon source, positive flux). Per-polygon statistics (minimum, maximum, mean flux) are computed from the downloaded raster.
| Code | Provider | Resolution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRD_GFW_FLUX | WRI / Global Forest Watch (via sat-io Awesome GEE Community Catalog) | 30 m | 2001-2020 (reference 2020) |
Note: the reader consumes the sat-io/open-datasets/forest_carbon_fluxes/net_flux asset, which is the re-hosted version of the WRI / Global Forest Watch net flux dataset.